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Teens' Top Ten 2012 Nominees

So, you know all about this super cool thing happening at your Library this summer during which you get earn prizes for reading, right? (*cough* Teen Summer Reading Program *cough*) You’re ready to sign up for your account and start writing your reviews as soon as May 21st gets here, but you’ve run into a roadblock. You suddenly realize that you don’t know what to read!!!

Outside the Library Box

Once you’ve been coming to the Library for a while, it’s very easy to get stuck in a reading rut. You always check the Young Adult section for interesting reads, then maybe you move on to the Feature Films section, or you look for the new books released by your favorite author. But, what do you do when you can’t seem to find anything new?

Support Teen Literature Day

As you might have heard, April 8th-14th is National Library Week, with each day celebrating an important aspect of the library world. The State of America's Libraries annual report was released on Monday. Tuesday provided an opportunity to celebrate the diligence of library workers and their efforts to facilitate access to the wealth of information libraries provide.

Challenge Yourself

Remember when you were a kid and your English teacher handed you a list of recommended books for you to read over the summer? Did you read any of them, or just roll your eyes and throw the list away? If you threw away the list, you missed out on some great books.

Top 5 Things Teens Should Know About Adult Books

As a library staff member who works with teens and teen lit all the time, I find myself constantly extolling the value of YA books to adults, whether that’s to my coworkers needing something to display or to customers looking for something to read or even to my friends and family when I’m off the clock. But I realized this morning that I almost never do the reverse, and I’m a little bit ashamed of that.

March Madness: Not Just for Basketball Anymore

Move over basketball fans. Young adult fiction fans have their own March Madness thing goin' on.

Four YA book bloggers have teamed up to create YA March Madness. Just like the NCAA's "Big Dance," this tournament features Selection Sunday, genre-related regional tournament brackets, and a Final Four. On April 2, YA March Madness hopes to crown the best YA read of 2011 with its National Championship voting.